Date:         Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:00:15 -0600
Reply-To:     Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Roadhaus - MS Streets & Trips / GPS Incompatibility - Update
Comments: To: wilden1@JUNO.COM
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Aha, so some of the cooks at Wendy's are actually "techno-weenies". I knew
there was something there, in the eyes of the chef of my nice greasy burger,
I couldn't quite put my finger on. I wonder if the Scouts know they are
working on the Coyote merit badge?
Bob Stevens

http://groups.msn.com/BobsPhotoShare


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: Roadhaus - MS Streets & Trips / GPS Incompatibility - Update


> Yes Bob: I must agree GPS trekking is a modern way of life and not all
> that technical to those that apply the science correctly.
> In recent Border Patrol reports, they captured several Coyotes that were
> carrying GPS devices and found that they had charted every wash, drain
> pipe, cut through fence and Border Patrol high ground viewing point from
> Texas to Baha California.
> In interviews with the Coyotes from their jail cells they claimed that
> the GPS system had substantially increased their successful delivery rate
> of illegal immigrants and they could get higher fees because with the GPS
> they could stash food and water in the difficult terrain they had to
> cross and cut down on the deaths occurring from dehydration and
> starvation on the difficult journeys.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:28:14 -0600 Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
> writes:
> > On the other hand, the medical director of the program I work for is
> > one of
> > the parent/sponsors of his son's scout troop. The leaders of this
> > troop
> > almost always use topo maps they get off their computers, such as
> > found
> > accessable at Trails.com, plot GPS coordinates from the maps they
> > get there,
> > then use those as a guide while they are out on their 3-4 day trips
> > with
> > 10-15 scouts. Been doing it for 6-7 years that way. Not a new
> > techno-weenie
> > concept at all. They sometimes have to travel on unmarked desert
> > roads in
> > So. Utah for 30-40 miles, with multiple, unmarked intersecting
> > roads, to get
> > to some of these trailheads, and have never gotten lost....because
> > they
> > follow the preplanned GPS maps/coordinates they created off the
> > computer
> > prior to leaving. No odd/even numbered signs out there. Works.
> >
> > Bob Stevens
> >
> > http://groups.msn.com/BobsPhotoShare
>
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